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Lets see, penguin "recommends" selling them at 16$
Thats usually a 100% markup, meaning they sell the books to amazon for 8$
That suddenly leaves amazon a VERY slim margin of ~2$ with which they need to pay for the bandwidth, administration etc.
Normally in sales you need around 30-40% margins to remain healthy... amazon isn't being "greedy" by any measure. (They do have the advantage of mass sellings to offset the administration/bandwidth costs but still this book has "only" a 20% margin and that is close to being at the non-profit edge.
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